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Possible chemical weapon usage reported in Syria
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| Joss Weatherby |
http://blogs.aljazeera.com/topic/sy...d-activists-say
Only source at the moment, there is video, it looks like what nerve agent symptoms would look like (struggling to breath is a big one).
On the other hand this all seems strange, waiting to get multiple sources to begin a freak it. |
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| Joss Weatherby |
The more I watch this the less convinced I am that its any sort of organophosphate poisoning...
Who knows whats going on here... |
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| Lagrangian |
Not on my bloomberg feed, they're usually quick.
My heart goes out to all the innocent civilians who have to endure this, and I pray the Western world will never see this kind of in our backyard.
Cool article taken from the y-combinator feed
http://www.empiricalzeal.com/2012/1...ness-look-like/ |
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| Marcus Summers |
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| Vivid Boy |
| if they had guns this would have never happened |
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| itsamemario |
| quote: | Originally posted by Joss Weatherby
The more I watch this the less convinced I am that its any sort of organophosphate poisoning...
Who knows whats going on here... |
From the few seconds I saw of one of the clip it looks a lot like CS gas we did in recruit training.. If it had been mustard, sarin or even vx there'd either be blisters or hell of a lot more mucus involved.
Not saying this isn't bad, but incapacitating gas is a hell of a lot less violent, and permanent, than bullets, let alone weaponized nerve agents. |
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| Joss Weatherby |
Its like choking and trippin on acid at the same time! :wtf:
But yea, not as bad as GB, VX, or even HD.
They break out those three and we got some serious on our hands. |
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| Joss Weatherby |
| Since atropine injections when exposed to BZ are detrimental, hopefully this is not an attack to confuse populations that have been distributed autoinjector kits when actual nerve agents are used, causing them to not take antidotes. |
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| EddieZilker |
| quote: | Originally posted by Joss Weatherby
Since atropine injections when exposed to BZ are detrimental, hopefully this is not an attack to confuse populations that have been distributed autoinjector kits when actual nerve agents are used, causing them to not take antidotes. |
Perhaps it's (also) to cause them to use them, depleting their supply and/or causing people to poison themselves with contraindicated medicine. |
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